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NAVAL ARCHEOLOGY AND THE ART OF NAVIGATION
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men and seas
6,000 years of fascinating adventure

Ch. 1: Ships from Antiquity
Ch. 2: The Art of Navigation in the Renaissance

 

Chapter  I : "SHIPS FROM ANTIQUITY"

from prehistory to modern times. Rafts and ships from the Pacific, from Egipt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome ...

This chapter's contributors :

THOR EYERDHAL, Ethnologist

JAVIER NIETO, Archaeologist

ZAHI HAWAS, Archaeologist

JOSE Mª HIDALGO CUNARRO, Archaeologist

Chapter II: THE ART OF NAVIGATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES

In the first centuries of the second millenium four cultures develop navigation techniques: the Chinese, the Mediterranean, the Arabic and the Nordic. Seafaring development, astronomy, cartography.

This chapter's contributors:

ESTACIO DO REIS, General of the Portuguese Navy .

MANUEL CATALAN Y PEREZ DE URQUIOLA. Admiral, Spanish Navy .

JOAQIN CAZORLA POZAS Historian and Geographer

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